<p><p>Theater critic Artemus Bancroft isn't sure what to expect when his Auntie Halcyone Bancroft-Hyde summons him home to California with vague but urgent pleas about being unable to cope with "the situation."</p> <p>The situation turns out to be the apparent haunting of Green Lanterns Inn--along with alarming rumors that long-suffering Auntie Halcyone may have murdered her philandering husband, Ogden Hyde.</p> <p>In fact, the rumors seem to have been started by the late Mr. Hyde himself--from beyond the grave.</p></p>